Members of the Minneapolis City Council want to make the city’s verbal promise to follow through with the dismissed federal consent decree a legal promise, too.

Supporters of the plan announced Tuesday they want to modify the city’s current court-mediated agreement with the Minnesota Human Rights Department (MDHR) to include reforms from the federal consent decree dismissed by a judge on May 27. • Overlaps and differencesbetween the Minneapolis police federal, state consent decrees

The dismissed agreement would have bound the city and its police department to extensive changes, following a Biden-era Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation that found a pattern of discriminatory and unconstitutional policing.

City Council President Elliot Payne says there are many provisions in the fe

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